I was a competitive dancer growing up. When you dance as much as I did, your body starts to develop some battle scars, so to speak. My feet took the brunt of the scars. One thing you should know about dancers is that we are proud of things like calluses.
Where do you look for your hope? When the trials of life come, the storms of doubt and fear consume your mind, or the sorrows and weight of the world overwhelm your heart, where do you turn? To what do you look? Where do you set your hope? When we
Can you think of a person God has placed in your life where lingering in their presence is easy? When you are spending time with them, there is no urgency to move on to the next thing, no quiet pull toward your to-do list, only a steady desire to remain.
Redemption — to “buy back” or recover something that was lost. Have you ever been in debt? I mean really, really deep debt? While I’ve never personally had massive college loans or overwhelming credit card debt, my husband and I once found ourselves in a situation where our bank account
One of the sweetest things in life is to hear a little child pray. Their off-the-wall prayers are done in earnest. As I think about their prayers and chuckle, I also realize how instructive their prayer life is. Yes, many of their prayers are not theologically accurate, but they are
Paul’s letter to the church in Colossae is filled with warnings against dangerous teaching that was taking place, which included underplaying Christ’s role and undermining a believer’s new status as being “in Christ.” He spends the entire book encouraging them to seek Christian maturity through their faith and identity. As
Every Love God Greatly study highlights one of the languages we serve – our new study, Christ is All I Need, includes the highlight of our Swahili branch! Join us in prayer for Manoti, her team, and the women of her language and nation as you read her story, and
Can you imagine Christianity without Christ? A Christianity where Jesus is not worshiped as the true God nor trusted as the only source for wisdom, power, and a transformed life? A Christianity where you need to keep endless, man-made rules? A Christianity which goes beyond the words of Jesus in
My best friend did some savvy shopping and purchased an old chest of drawers for her daughter’s bedroom. I stopped by, and she was delighted to show me the beautifully refinished piece of furniture on display. After I “oooh-ed and aah-ed” at how lovely it looked, she showed me the